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This graphic print, by an anonymous engraver, was
issued c. 1581, the year when the Estates General of the
Netherlands formally repudiated their sovereign, Philip II of
Spain. Entitled "Stop Rooting in my Garden Spanish Pigs," the
print depicts the province of Holland as a fierce lion defending
an enclosed space that features a liberty hat atop a pole. The
space outside the lion's enclosure is swarmed by grunting pigs,
a slur on the Spanish royalists. It is one of many popular
prints from the period of Dutch Revolt against Spain
(1566-1648).
Peter Arnade is a specialist in late medieval and early modern
Europe. His published work concerns urban ritual, state power,
public space and political conflict in fifteenth-and
sixteenth-century Europe, with a focus on the Low Countries,
northern France and Spain, and includes the forthcoming Beggars,
Iconoclasts and Civic Patriots: The Political Culture of the
Dutch Revolt (1555-1585) (Cornell University Press, 2008) and
Realms of Ritual: Burgundian Ceremony and Civic Life in
Late-Medieval Ghent (Cornell University Press, 1996). His has
also served as guest co-editor for special issues of the Journal
of Interdisciplinary History (on urban public space) and The
Journal of Early Modern History (on the Dutch Revolt and its
political culture), and is co-editor with Michael Rocke of the
forthcoming Power and Public Behavior: Essays in Honor of
Richard C. Trexler (Centre for Reformation and Renaissance
Studies, Texts and Essays, The University of Toronto). His
current interest concerns military triumphs over cities and
rites of punishment and destruction imposed on urban space in
early modern Europe and the Americas. He has been a recipient of
grants from the Fulbright-Hayes Exchange, The Belgian American
Educational Foundation, the American Philosophical Society, the
National Endowment for the Humanities, the Getty Research
Foundation, and the Institute for Advanced Study, School of
Historical Studies.
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